The castlerun, third edition

Last Easter Monday I’ve completed my third castlerun De Halve van De Haar, a half marathon (21.1 km) held in the park of the De Haar castle.

I’m pretty satisfied with my result, which is the best of all my runs so far—1:47:54:

It’s a significant improvement compared to the Amersfoort (1:55:04) and the previous De Halve (2:01:46) runs. It looks the trainings do make a difference after all!

The outcome is the 313^th place (out of 895) overall, 292^th place (out of 611) among men.

By the way, the places are assigned based on gross time (measured from the start shot) and not on net time (from the moment you cross the start line), which doesn’t make sense. The start area is always crowded so it takes a while to reach the start line. It took me 33 seconds, for instance.

Anyway, Ad Sluijter, who took the first place, has finished half an hour ahead of me, so there’s some room for growth! ■